Quassel IRC

Whenever the internet connection is dropped by force (my ISP does this once per day), the core needs quite long to detect this disconnect (15..20 minutes on Freenode). During the timeout period I can still write into any buffer; the text just goes nowhere, without any indication that it didn't reach the server.

As discussed in #quassel, the solution is probably to make the core ping the server periodically, if no message(s) arrive from the server within a certain interval. Monitoring the network activity of another IRC client has shown that it uses this method to quickly detect disconnects even on Freenode, using a ping interval of approx. 30 seconds.